Privacy Commissioner Bruce Slane has attacked aspects of proposed laws allowing state agencies to hack into private computers, saying the move would give authorities unprecedented powers to "snoop" into people's lives.
At I understand it, This guy's job is to make sure that this sort of stuff doesn't get passed into law without being publicised. Have a look at their site.
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
I doubt, my friend, if you really have a clue as to the danger they pose to both me and you...
Well, I live in a country where earlier this year the girlfriend of the son of a Federal Senator, while drunk, drove (unapproved) her "in-law's" government car into oncoming traffic (she had to cross 20metres of median strip to do it) and killed a father of 2.
result was $120 (AUD) fine. The wife of the deceased wan't vn informed of the trial date. She found out the result when someone told her.
The reason I wanted to know about the greens was because if they get their increase in funding, they will be in a position where they aren't shooting at helicopters with.45 caliber pistol.
Speaking as someone who gets no say in the election, (cause I'm a kiwi in Oz), whats doing with the Nader vote ?
If he hits 5%, the Greens get more funding for 2004, and maybe you'll get some intelligent policies (and politics).
PS I get the impression that the rest of the world can discuss the US presidential race with more rigour (and good humour) than the supposed intellectuals on/.
I think the book would sell but I would really be surprised if anyone would buy it.
What ????? Seriously, though, apart from this line, the whole post reeks of WASPish "suffering is good for, make you grow stronger" crap.
IM(NS)HO, Suffering sucks. It uses up mental and physical energy (in the afflicted) that can be put to better use, and is just not nice.
Similar logic applies to keeping your country up to-date and current. Over the last 20 years, Australia has spent about $40 Million dollars (Oz dollars, so it's not as much as you think) per Olympic Gold medal won, specifically targetted to those elite athletes who were expected to perform well.
Meanwhile, a Monash University study says a $25 million injection is needed for IT subjects.
bread and circuses..... So if you want a good job, lazy lifestyle, come on down.... There's not much competition !!!
ruggedised componentry would be a start. Ship inspectors ? I live on the coast and salt is a bastard on the stuff my house is made of, let alone keyboards and other electrical / electronic componentry.
And what about spillage ? Don't any of these guys eat or drink ?
"Justice Hampel said in his ruling yesterday that... the CrimeNet entry regarding yesterday's case featured material that was either incorrect, partly correct or in dispute. "
The point is that this database provides for easy access to large volumes of sensitive data which is incorrect. Have you ever tried getting a correction to your credit-card bill ? The CrimeNet database will be worse. As someone has already said, a lot of people would be suspicious of us for raising the issue in the first place ("If you've got nuffin to hide, then you don't need to hide.."), and CrimeNets first defence will bethat the Newspaper and Public rcords are incorrect. As it is, Australia has a piss-poor record in privacy anyway.
This is part of a disturbing trend in Australia... There are moves in another state (NSW) to set up a Police DNA database. In a recent trial, in a small town in NSW, people were forced by public opinion to submit to DNA examination. As it turned out, the perpetrator handed himself in. We have the Police Department's word that all samples were destroyed. In other words, we're all guilty.
Hey, Katz, did you see the quote from the CrimeNet guy ? Mr Schultz said yesterday he was appalled at the suggestion that the site should be closed down. "We have a legitimate business operating within the law," he said.
The difference between DeCSS/napster and the books in 451 was that the population had decided (in 451) that books, knowledge etc were dangerous.
DeCSS and Napster are attacks on middlemen, not knowledge. As Linus said "Die, RIAA. Go, Metallica"...and for what its worth, I agree.
"The reason I was speeding is.....
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The situation as it will apply with my current employer (my division is being sold in the next 2 weeks and the rollout starts in july) is... a) the company subsidises the cost of the computer b) the employee owns the computer c) the company heavily subsidises the IP costs d) the employee is responsible for paying the IP costs
This solves the problem of access and rights and priveleges. The real reason they're doing it is that we are an old fashioned 'dig stuff out of the ground' mining company, that needs bright people to come up with bright ideas to keep us ahead of the pack. In other words, give the people we were smart enough to hire, the tools to do bright things, have bright ideas, anytime. Where it helps many employees is that, because of the remoteness of many of our sites *, while people have computers, they can't access POPs without paying horrendous line costs. The company bundles these in with it's own comms bill, and everyone's a winner....
What worries me is that they're going to be win2K PCs. The corporate standard for document transfer is either html or office 95...
* you can stand on the roof of the mine managers office, and the next thing you see in every direction is the curvature of the earth
I can almost hear the moans from the pizza-and-coke crowd whem they read this: "Where's the fun? Where's the creativity?". But they're under the mistaken assumption that putting lines of code into the editor is the only fun thing about developing software. Typeing code is not what the job is about (despite what people seem to think). We're in the business of doing cool things for people. The crativity and ideas that flow from the (very smart) people around me are what drives me. Just sitting coding typing is a bit dull compared to human interaction...
Several points..... 1. How does your direct supervisor justify the cost of employing you, to their boss ? 2. What structure does your performance review take ? How do they know whether you have, in fact, done a good job ?
It's up to you to let the rest of the company know how good you are. As someone else said, it's callled communication. And sometimes it involves fitting in, adapting.... If your current employer values diplomas and certificates, do diploma and certificate, industry recognisesd courses.
In general, make sure that you know what the goals of your boss and your company are, then work out what you can do to help them acheive these goals, then do it, then tell them how you helped them (in terms that they understand).
Since this is commercial software, I'll assume it's not going to be OSS.seriously.
The SAS community have a proud record of swapping code. An example is MXG - one of the major MVS resource monitoring tools.
BTW, I believe that one of the reasons SAS does so well, though very quietly, is that it is a privately held company. The stock holders are committed to the company, as much as they are to making money. Of course, you don't need to produce as much editorial comment (to keep your name in front of the stock holders) either.
The oldest Y2K related bug in the IBM database (the one for MVS anyway - I know some S/38s shipped in '70s with no 2000/02/29) that I could find referred to the method of saving tapes 'forever' by coding 99/365 in the retention period. This was reported in 1977. If your SysProgs won't update, then neither the hw, the sw, nor the vendor can be held accountable....
PS check out the Linux Planet story on Linux on S/390 for what you can do with these ancient monsters.
PPS Once we get DB/2 running under Linux, you might find Linux getting some credibility...
This blurring of the barrier between work and home.....
If you enjoy your work and co-workers, it doesn't so much blur as disapear. In fact, it's the sort of world most "geeks" seem to aspire to live in. The problem (for most geeks) is that Ford is making it available to 'norms' and 'suits'.... (or am I being too cynical when i suggest that geeks can be just as petty and greedy and, yes, snobby, as 'ordinary' folk ?)
and yes, Ford will benefit. But not all games are zero-sum.... Yes they get richer or bigger or something, but the employees (and their families) are getting a good deal, too.
I don't have the reference unfortunately, but a couple of years ago there was a Guiness sponsored contest where all the Guiness's (? my first language is strine) brewed all over the world were judged for taste head etc etc etc..... .....And the winner was the NZ version.
PS try Lion Breweries Steinlager. The original recipe was done by Chuck Hahn now of Hahn breweries (originally setup by Chuck and owned by Lion Breweries) in Sydney Australia. http://www.lion-nathan.co.nz/ has some nifty Hahn and Steinalger screensavers...
My next question is how this will affect companies being liable for employee e-mail and network traffic. In a sense, a corporation is acting as an ISP for their employees.
in another sense, an internal mail system is not an ISP. Also check the following quotes from the story...
But aside from resolving the dispute in this particular case, the Court articulated a cautious wait-and-see approach to what it clearly perceives as an evolving body of law. "Given the extraordinarily rapid growth of this technology and its developments, it is plainly unwise to lurch prematurely into emerging issues, given a record that does not at all lend itself to their determination," Judge Rosenblatt wrote for the Court.
and
Judge Rosenblatt expressed concern that going beyond the issues necessary to decide Lunney v. Prodigy would "entail something very much like drafting advisory opinions. Misdirected or misapplied, they can create the very kind of uncertainty, or confusion, that purposeful decisional law seeks to eliminate."
It seems to me that the court is taking a very conservative (in legal terms) view; i.e. Don't make any new decisions, laws etc, until we have to.
It amuses me to see the kiddies talk about 454 v8s with 12 and 13 second response times for the quarter...... checkout the RZ500. The best of the lot (IMHO). Two wheels good, four wheels bad...... one wheel even better
The Uruguay round of the GATT talks was mainly about Agricultural trade. It received major coverage in countries like New Zealand and Australia, and to a less degree, the EU countries (the EU are massive subsidisers of their own farm comunities). When the topic hits home (cars ? labour ?), then maybe the US-centric media will see some mileage in covering it.....
2cents in reply... Free trade is good, because you get cheaper goods and services. Like every other 'good', it needs regulation (i.e. do we want to allow free trade in Ivory ?), but regulation for the sake of protection needs to be controlled as well (for a while, every japanese car imported into Europe had to have a safety inspection. There was only one beaureacrat 'qualified' to do this). Tariffs mean that you can fly a hereford bull from Australia to London (1st class on QANTAS), butcher and dress it, and have it on the table at the Dorchester cheaper than the cost of buying that amount of beef from a london butcher. Tariffs mean you pay more for inferior goods and services, and you prop up inefficient industries. These inefficiencies cost taxpayers and consumers money. PS Disclosure of Interest - US Lamb and Beef tariffs are costing some of my family their farms.
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At I understand it, This guy's job is to make sure that this sort of stuff doesn't get passed into law without being publicised. Have a look at their site.
All software is flawed. All hardware is flawed. If you haven't learned that yet,
I doubt, my friend, if you really have a clue as to the danger they pose to both me and you... .45 caliber pistol.
Well, I live in a country where earlier this year the girlfriend of the son of a Federal Senator, while drunk, drove (unapproved) her "in-law's" government car into oncoming traffic (she had to cross 20metres of median strip to do it) and killed a father of 2.
result was $120 (AUD) fine. The wife of the deceased wan't vn informed of the trial date. She found out the result when someone told her.
The reason I wanted to know about the greens was because if they get their increase in funding, they will be in a position where they aren't shooting at helicopters with
"The reason I was speeding is.....
If he hits 5%, the Greens get more funding for 2004, and maybe you'll get some intelligent policies (and politics).
PS I get the impression that the rest of the world can discuss the US presidential race with more rigour (and good humour) than the supposed intellectuals on /.
"The reason I was speeding is.....
I think the book would sell but I would really be surprised if anyone would buy it.
What ????? Seriously, though, apart from this line, the whole post reeks of WASPish "suffering is good for, make you grow stronger" crap.
IM(NS)HO, Suffering sucks. It uses up mental and physical energy (in the afflicted) that can be put to better use, and is just not nice.
"The reason I was speeding is.....
Meanwhile, a Monash University study says a $25 million injection is needed for IT subjects.
bread and circuses..... So if you want a good job, lazy lifestyle, come on down.... There's not much competition !!!
"The reason I was speeding is.....
And what about spillage ? Don't any of these guys eat or drink ?
"The reason I was speeding is.....
The point is that this database provides for easy access to large volumes of sensitive data which is incorrect.
Have you ever tried getting a correction to your credit-card bill ? The CrimeNet database will be worse. As someone has already said, a lot of people would be suspicious of us for raising the issue in the first place ("If you've got nuffin to hide, then you don't need to hide.."), and CrimeNets first defence will bethat the Newspaper and Public rcords are incorrect. As it is, Australia has a piss-poor record in privacy anyway.
This is part of a disturbing trend in Australia... There are moves in another state (NSW) to set up a Police DNA database. In a recent trial, in a small town in NSW, people were forced by public opinion to submit to DNA examination. As it turned out, the perpetrator handed himself in. We have the Police Department's word that all samples were destroyed. In other words, we're all guilty.
Hey, Katz, did you see the quote from the CrimeNet guy ?
Mr Schultz said yesterday he was appalled at the suggestion that the site should be closed down. "We have a legitimate business operating within the law," he said.
"The reason I was speeding is.....
DeCSS and Napster are attacks on middlemen, not knowledge. As Linus said "Die, RIAA. Go, Metallica" ...and for what its worth, I agree.
"The reason I was speeding is.....
a) the company subsidises the cost of the computer
b) the employee owns the computer
c) the company heavily subsidises the IP costs
d) the employee is responsible for paying the IP costs
This solves the problem of access and rights and priveleges. The real reason they're doing it is that we are an old fashioned 'dig stuff out of the ground' mining company, that needs bright people to come up with bright ideas to keep us ahead of the pack. In other words, give the people we were smart enough to hire, the tools to do bright things, have bright ideas, anytime.
Where it helps many employees is that, because of the remoteness of many of our sites *, while people have computers, they can't access POPs without paying horrendous line costs. The company bundles these in with it's own comms bill, and everyone's a winner....
What worries me is that they're going to be win2K PCs. The corporate standard for document transfer is either html or office 95...
* you can stand on the roof of the mine managers office, and the next thing you see in every direction is the curvature of the earth
"The reason I was speeding is.....
I can almost hear the moans from the pizza-and-coke crowd whem they read this: "Where's the fun? Where's the creativity?". But they're under the mistaken assumption that putting lines of code into the editor is the only fun thing about developing software.
Typeing code is not what the job is about (despite what people seem to think). We're in the business of doing cool things for people. The crativity and ideas that flow from the (very smart) people around me are what drives me.
Just sitting coding typing is a bit dull compared to human interaction...
"The reason I was speeding is.....
1. How does your direct supervisor justify the cost of employing you, to their boss ?
2. What structure does your performance review take ? How do they know whether you have, in fact, done a good job ?
It's up to you to let the rest of the company know how good you are. As someone else said, it's callled communication. And sometimes it involves fitting in, adapting.... If your current employer values diplomas and certificates, do diploma and certificate, industry recognisesd courses.
In general, make sure that you know what the goals of your boss and your company are,
then work out what you can do to help them acheive these goals,
then do it,
then tell them how you helped them (in terms that they understand).
It's called communication.
The SAS community have a proud record of swapping code. An example is MXG - one of the major MVS resource monitoring tools.
BTW, I believe that one of the reasons SAS does so well, though very quietly, is that it is a privately held company. The stock holders are committed to the company, as much as they are to making money. Of course, you don't need to produce as much editorial comment (to keep your name in front of the stock holders) either.
If your SysProgs won't update, then neither the hw, the sw, nor the vendor can be held accountable....
PS check out the Linux Planet story on Linux on S/390 for what you can do with these ancient monsters.
PPS Once we get DB/2 running under Linux, you might find Linux getting some credibility...
If you enjoy your work and co-workers, it doesn't so much blur as disapear. In fact, it's the sort of world most "geeks" seem to aspire to live in. The problem (for most geeks) is that Ford is making it available to 'norms' and 'suits'.... (or am I being too cynical when i suggest that geeks can be just as petty and greedy and, yes, snobby, as 'ordinary' folk ?)
and yes, Ford will benefit. But not all games are zero-sum....
Yes they get richer or bigger or something, but the employees (and their families) are getting a good deal, too.
PS try Lion Breweries Steinlager. The original recipe was done by Chuck Hahn now of Hahn breweries (originally setup by Chuck and owned by Lion Breweries) in Sydney Australia.
http://www.lion-nathan.co.nz/ has some nifty Hahn and Steinalger screensavers...
in another sense, an internal mail system is not an ISP. Also check the following quotes from the story...
But aside from resolving the dispute in this particular case, the Court articulated a cautious wait-and-see approach to what it clearly perceives as an evolving body of law. "Given the extraordinarily rapid growth of this technology and its developments, it is plainly unwise to lurch prematurely into emerging issues, given a record that does not at all lend itself to their determination," Judge Rosenblatt wrote for the Court.
and
Judge Rosenblatt expressed concern that going beyond the issues necessary to decide Lunney v. Prodigy would "entail something very much like drafting advisory opinions. Misdirected or misapplied, they can create the very kind of uncertainty, or confusion, that purposeful decisional law seeks to eliminate."
It seems to me that the court is taking a very conservative (in legal terms) view; i.e. Don't make any new decisions, laws etc, until we have to.
It amuses me to see the kiddies talk about 454 v8s with 12 and 13 second response times for the quarter...... checkout the RZ500. The best of the lot (IMHO).
Two wheels good, four wheels bad......
one wheel even better
The Uruguay round of the GATT talks was mainly about Agricultural trade. It received major coverage in countries like New Zealand and Australia, and to a less degree, the EU countries (the EU are massive subsidisers of their own farm comunities). When the topic hits home (cars ? labour ?), then maybe the US-centric media will see some mileage in covering it.....
2cents in reply...
Free trade is good, because you get cheaper goods and services. Like every other 'good', it needs regulation (i.e. do we want to allow free trade in Ivory ?), but regulation for the sake of protection needs to be controlled as well (for a while, every japanese car imported into Europe had to have a safety inspection. There was only one beaureacrat 'qualified' to do this).
Tariffs mean that you can fly a hereford bull from Australia to London (1st class on QANTAS), butcher and dress it, and have it on the table at the Dorchester cheaper than the cost of buying that amount of beef from a london butcher.
Tariffs mean you pay more for inferior goods and services, and you prop up inefficient industries. These inefficiencies cost taxpayers and consumers money.
PS Disclosure of Interest - US Lamb and Beef tariffs are costing some of my family their farms.